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Old Fri Sep 11, 2009, 03:55pm
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Nope, just a lowly LL scrub right now.
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Old Fri Sep 11, 2009, 04:34pm
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All righty then.

I'll find a recipient at the H.S. meeting. Thanks, man.
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Old Fri Sep 11, 2009, 07:00pm
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Call me silly, but if I had a used piece of equipment that could get me $500-$1000 I would do it in a heart beat, "brother" or not. Don't get me wrong, I've discounted a lot of my old gear for guys needing it, but if someone is going to place that high a value on it, let the bidding begin. I can see the arguement for putting it on here vs ebay with the protections and all, but save me the rightiousness and silly indignation.

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Old Fri Sep 11, 2009, 10:45pm
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Oh, yeah ... it's "righteousness and silly indignation."

Okay. So, if they're your beliefs or convictions, then they're valid.

I see.

Are you only fair-minded when you umpire?
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Old Sat Sep 12, 2009, 01:09am
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Oh, yeah ... it's "righteousness and silly indignation."

Okay. So, if they're your beliefs or convictions, then they're valid.

I see.

Are you only fair-minded when you umpire?
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. To me that seems like something to throw away. But to someone who collects broken laser pointers it could be the one item needed to complete his set. So to him the laser pointer has much more value than it does to me.

To me it seems like umpgdubs3 was very fair with his selling of the mask. This is a luxury item which has a high demand and a low supply. It isn't at all like selling .5 liter bottles of water for $40 after a hurricane when there is no drinking water. He is selling the mask at the normal price that the mask usually sells for in the US. If he was being unfair he would have lied and said that they usually sold for much more than they really did.
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Old Sat Sep 12, 2009, 07:07am
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Oh, yeah ... it's "righteousness and silly indignation."

Okay. So, if they're your beliefs or convictions, then they're valid.

I see.

Are you only fair-minded when you umpire?
Pot. Kettle. Black.

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Old Sat Sep 12, 2009, 10:14am
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Then I'm not fair-minded? Because I don't believe in gouging a peer.

I see. I'm just trying to learn how to understand all this new stuff.

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Old Sat Sep 12, 2009, 01:08pm
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Then I'm not fair-minded? Because I don't believe in gouging a peer.

I see. I'm just trying to learn how to understand all this new stuff.
I have to ask, how is it gouging to sell something for what the market will bear? Is it gouging to sell my used car to a college kid for $1000, assuming that's what the market value is?

How do you define gouging?
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Old Sat Sep 12, 2009, 02:53pm
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Then I'm not fair-minded? Because I don't believe in gouging a peer.

I see. I'm just trying to learn how to understand all this new stuff.
I meant nothing about your opinion, which you are entitled to have and to express, about "price gouging."

Only about "So, if they're your beliefs or convictions, then they're valid."

More than once (this thread and the recent "do you wear a cup on the bases?" thread for example) you've seemd to imply that only your belief and conviction were valid. And, not only have you expressed your belief (agian, you're allowed to do so), you've repeated it over and over and included some disparaging remarks about others in doing so. That's the activity I'm asking you (and others) to stop.
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